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U.S. reclaims women’s world hockey championship with OT win over Canada

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Tessa Janecke scores winner as U.S. beats Canada 4-3 to win women's ice hockey world championship.

Taylor Heise set up the winning goal in the gold-medal game in Czech Republic .

Canada captain Marie-Philip Poulin , the tournament MVP , had an assist to top the scoring table at the tournament with 12 points from four goals and eight assists.

The U.S. jumped to a 2 -0 lead with a couple of goals in the span of 29 seconds in the middle period.

Overall attendance at the women’s tournament, the first in the Czech Republic , reached 122,331 spectators.

Canada 's answer was quick to reduce the lead to 2-1 only 52 seconds after Murphy 's goal.